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    The DKW F8 is a compact front-wheel drive two-stroke engined saloon, introduced in 1939. The F8 was slightly shorter than its predecessor despite having...
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    (1934–1935) ≈7,000 units DKW F5 (1935–1937) ≈60,000 units DKW F7 (1937–1938) ≈80,000 units DKW F8 (1939–1942) ≈50,000 units into the war. DKW F9 prototype (1939)...
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    model. Some 80,000 of these front-wheel drives were sold until the 1939 DKW F8 successor was released. The entry level 'Reichsklasse' saloon now shared...
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  • Fairchild F8, a 1977 8-bit microprocessor Function key, on a computer keyboard Facebook F8, an annual conference hosted by Facebook DKW F8, compact front-wheel...
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    The DKW F9 was the prototype of a car Auto Union intended to launch as a successor to the DKW F8. The small DKWs were among top selling small cars in Germany...
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    DKWs were therefore built under contract in a refurbished plant by Rheinmetall-Borsig in Düsseldorf. The F89 shared its underpinnings with the DKW F8...
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    the F9 derived from the DKW F8 which had been available between 1939 and 1942. The body closely followed the design of the DKW F9, a prototype with which...
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    two-cylinder 700 cc two-stroke engine of the DKW F8 rated at 20 hp (22 hp after 1952). In 1955 the van received the DKW F9's three cylinder unit with 900 cc,...
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  • East German IFA concern, which had begun building the former DKW F8 (now known as the IFA F8) in mid-1949, after several prototypes were built and displayed...
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    Karmann. The F 89 were based on the DKW F8 (motor) and the DKW F9 (coachwork) pre-war constructions. In March 1953, the DKW 3=6 'Sonderklasse was launched...
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    VW Beetle) and the two-stroke powered, front-wheel-drive, wooden-bodied DKW F8, built by the Auto Union Chemnitz plant in the Soviet occupation zone. The...
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    and VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau, which made the IFA F8 (derived from the DKW F8) and the Trabant. East Germany's status as a communist country...
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    from WW2 in 1949/1950. In East Germany (DDR), the pre-war DKW F8 and F9 reappeared as the IFA F8 and IFA F9 in 1949, followed by the AWZ P70 in 1955, the...
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    in specifications to the KIM 10, and as such rejected the KdF-Wagen and DKW F8. The Opel Kadett K38 was found to match these requirements. In August 1945...
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    was the first in a line of inexpensive light weight DKWs, from the F1 to the F8, which secured DKW's position as the country's most successful manufacturer...
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    Automobilwerke Zwickau (AWZ) between 1955 and 1959. It succeeded the IFA F8 using the same 684 cc two-cylinder, two-stroke engine but with a completely...
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  • event held in 1946 that had 35 finishers. It was won by Olle Landbu in a DKW F8 Meisterklasse with Per-Frederik Cederbaum second in a Willys Jeep MB and...
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  • door) DKW 1000 S (1958–1961) (front door) DKW F7 (1937–1939) (front door on 2-door sedans, 2-door cabriolet sedans, and 2-door coupe cabriolets) DKW F8 (1939–1942)...
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    and Simson. IFA cars were based on pre-war DKW designs and made in the former Horch factory in Zwickau. The F8 had a two-cylinder 684 cc (41.7 cu in) engine...
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    g.II Aleksander Mazurek Chevrolet Master Sedan g.V Wojciech Kołaczkowski DKW Meisterklasse g.I 1938 Jan Ripper Fiat 1100 (1937) g.I Stanisław Szwarcsztajn...
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    While Auto Union customers were enticed to buy cars with names such as DKW F8 and BMW were inviting customers to be seduced by names such as BMW 326,...
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    and technical solutions employed by the Lloyd 300 and those of the prewar DKW F8 was impossible to miss. From the driver's seat, it was clear that no attempt...
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    Zwickau restarted assembly of the pre-war models in 1949. These DKW models were renamed to IFA F8 and IFA F9 and were similar to the West German versions. West...
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    of cabriolet bodied versions of the IFA F8, which was in effect a barely changed successor to the pre-war DKW F8. Two years later, in October 1949, the...
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    Horch P 240 Cabriolet (1956) Audi Typ C (1913) Audi Zwickau (1930) DKW F7 (1938) IFA F8 (1954) Sachsenring P 240 (1958) Trabant P50 (1957–1962) Trabant 600...
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    DKW RT 250 (1952–1953) motorcycle engine...
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    produced. Each piston had its own connection rod. From 1931 until 1939, DKW racing motorcycles powered by split-single engines dominated the Lightweight...
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    Windscreen wiper arms and blades on a 1954 DKW-IFA F8 "Luxuscabriolet" from East Germany, using a simple radial design with no visible linkages...
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    of Panhard's engines, signed a deal with German manufacturer Auto Union-DKW. The 750cc three-cylinder, two-stroke engine could develop 80 bhp and with...
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  • 1930s into the 1938 F8 model and the F9 that was not put into production because World War II started, 250,000 were made. By this time DKW had become the largest...
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